DwayneGorniak

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I pull like a mad fool till I'm almost ready to pop a spud. Call it my exercise workout for the day or whatever. Gotta keep that Molson muscle toned down some how. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/drinkingdude.gif

This is the speed of my new connection. Just changed internet companies. Haven't had internet at home for two weeks. That's why I have been a little quiet lately.

Not sure yet. MT-research.and.devolopement? Or as I call it:MT-trial.and.error.

I have been involved with engineering on this one. They sent me a nice little brain box recorder for this truck to capture some data. Truck came in this morning with a complete recording event. I will be getting a hold of engineering today to send them the data and then I am supposed to put back in the truck to capture some more data. Now I've gotta figure out how to send this stuff to Ford. I will be on the phone for a while I imagine.

Just went through a Microsoft update and all is working well. Every time the problem happened, I kept sending the error reports. Last nite I had a message pop up saying an update was ready to install. Works awsome now.

Have you done a power ballance or relative compression test on it? Sounds a little like a push rod.

And by the way Jose, don't give up on the dealership scene. You just may have to give up on your dealership and possibly move to make your situation better. But keep at the training and make your resume even thicker.

It's not always the youngsters though Jim. Here I am trying to retrain the older dogs to actually open the "F@ck!n Book" and read. They will come to me and ask me how to do something and I always answer their question with the magic question: WHAT DOES THE BOOK OR COMPUTER SAY? I have punded it into the heads of the yunger guys to R.T.F.C(read the f@ck!n computer) and they are grasping the technology better than some of the not really all that old guys. Keep in mind that some of youngins are taught by complete IDIOTS. If you have the blind Idiots leading the blind you've got nothin but a disaster. But if you can have the new generation taught properly, you will have a good turn out of qualified knowlegeable technicians. Here, we have a couple of guys that bitch and whine and cry that they want to make as much money as a Master/Diesel certified tech but they won't do a damned bit of training and even try to learn. I compare our situation in this trade to DOCTORS and NURSES. If you want to be a full fledged doctor then get your ass in gear, apply yourself and do something about it. But if you want to be a girly little nurse and not take all the training that Doctor does, then accept the fact that you are nothing more than a nurse and will earn a girly nurses wage. I am this abrupt and harsh with this to make a point and hopefully get it through some of these thick skulls out there.

Exactly Keith!

I had mine on ADHOC and switched it to use the Wireless access point configuration. With the Adhoc mode, the VCM Wireless cofiguration wizard wants to control the whole wireless system. It created havoc for me with viewing asbuilt data, SLTS, and tech hotline reports. After I switched to our existing wireless network, I am able to view all of those things but I get punted out of Internet exploer when I try to close a tab. I was on the phone with Teradyne today and they are looking into it now. If I remove the Teradyne wireless card in Add/remove programs, I can view everything in inford.com. With the wireless access point I can now jump back and forth between my online service manuals and IDS now which came in real handy today while diagnosing an injector pump on a 6.4L and doing air pressure tests for an STC fitting whill trying to view ICP with shop air on applyed. It's no big deal for me to hook up the USB cable for a roadtest. It is in my bay and shop that I really wanted to get rid of the wires between the truck and toolbox where my laptop sits.

Since I hooked mine up, I cannot view the online SLTS. Whenever I click on SLTS, I get an error message and it sends a report to Microsoft then kicks me out of inford.com. Greeaaatttt.....Don't feel lonely Bruce. This may take my overloaded brain a while to figure out.

Just a heads up. The wireless VCM does not like low battery voltage. It will constantly give you testman errors. Make sure you have good batteries or hook up a battery charger.

You know, I have always left my security features turned on even before I put in the wireless card and have never had a problem. I better find some wood to knock on.

Whhooo hoooo, just got mine this morning and got her all up and running. Man, it's faster than the cabled connection. I'm like a kid riding a bike right now: Look Maw No Hands! Haven't had a whole lot of time to play around with it yet, other than gettin it up and running and trying on a couple of trucks. It took longer to get it up here, because it had to go through all that damned french labeling. Freakin Quebec!

I agree. The key to prolinging engine life is maintenance, not a mechanic in a can. Another thing that I advise to customers who fall for the Scamsoil plot is to have their oil samples done by a non biased opinionated company like Cat or Cummins and "Not Scamsoil". I wouldn't trust their darn oil sampling for anything.

If synthetic is the trick to prolonging egine life, then why is it that I have seen 7.3L's that have been properly maintained on conventional oil changes with a million kilometers on them and still run like they were new?

We have two extremely knowledgable and excellent partsmen and one extremely useless piece of crap parts manager (monger). He is nothing more than an oxygen thief. He is as useless as t!ts on a boar, as useless as a bull with no nuts, is as usefull as Mr. Bobbit, well you get the hint. Our Parts manager does nothing but sit in his office every damned day and surf ebay and make sure that the parts are marked up so high that no one will come in and buy at the front counter. He is always sending parts back to keep our inventory down. Everyone in our dealership except the D.P. can not stand him. Luckily, both of our partsmen find ways around it. Together, they both run the department. Our parts manager will be retiring in the next few years and we already know that our front counter guy is going to be the next manager. This has come out in shop meetings with our D.P. It just can't happen soon enough. Our back counter guy is a great old crusty grump that has so much knowledge, it is unfreakin believable. I get along with him great and a have a ton of respect for him. We camp together and go Quaddding in the mountains together. He is 60, but parties and chases women like he is 30. You should see the crazy ole bugger ride his Grizzly 660. He used to own his own Ford dealership, farmed, and ran a John Deere dealership. He would be a great parts manager, but he just doesn't want the headache. Our front counter guy used to own his own tow truck company, builds customized old trucks like a 1949 KB-7 International on a Superduty chasis with a Dodge 5.9L cummins and Dodge tranny in it. Both of our partsmen are gear heads each in their own ways and have an amazing amount of knowledge between the two of them. Therfore, If we didn't have deadwood floating around our dealership I would rate our parts department as a 10 out of 10. But because we have this dead weight draging them down, I give them a 9.5 out of 10 because they dance so many circles around this invilid that he doesn't even know what is going on and almost doesn't matter.

No, I keep thinking about buying it though. However, there a few others on this sight that may have more insight into it as well.

Jim, did we say something? It sudenly got quiet about tech incentives. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/shrug.gif Chris, are you still there? Did I hit a nerve with some of you down there? If I did, Sorry. But I am curious as to what is like down there.

Buy the VCM like you said. But then Buy a reasonably priced laptop and you can run the laptop as an IDS unit but also with a program on it like Autoenginuity http://www.autoenginuity.com/index.html .The reason I say this is that the PDS system is limited compared to IDS. Just a thought that may be helpful.

Thirteen years with /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/ford.gifnow, and was dumped into diesels immediatley(not complaining),three years at an independent before that and preemployment for one year. Up here that means you spend a whole year in college learning every basic area of automotive and come out a second year apprentice. Oh, and I forgot to mention that my Dad and my Uncle both had shops that I was always muckin around in and started earning a few doallars doing oil changes when I was 14.

Welcome aboard herb. You are correct about combustion chamber gases entering the fuel rail and starving the other injectors in that rail for fuel. The pressurized fuel acts as a cusion at the bottom of the pintle as the Hydraulic pressure on the top of the intensifier piston pushes the pintle downward. If there is no pressurized fuel in the system, it just hammers the pintle into the bore and ruins the affected injentors.

So did you sign up for that suit Jim? /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/poke.gif Just Kiddin. Wow! That's all I can really think of saying at this point. That's like $19.79 now with the shrinking American Dollar. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/poke.gif You can't even buy a good case of beer for $19.79. I'm just mukin around guys, don't take offense. But, /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/surprise.gif!

I have a huge mix of clientel here. We are what I would call on the border of the oil patch versus Natural gas country. From here and North of me is major oil territory and south of me is major Natural gas territory. And being on a major "Queen Elizabeth 2" artery only fifteen minutes south of RedDeer gives me alot of Hotshot clientel and transient oil riggin clientel as well. We are also in major ranching/farming territory. Everyone south of me seems to work on all Natural gas/rancher clientel. Then I get alot of Finning Caterpiller and Toroment Energy service trucks out of Calgary and RedDeer. I am up to my freakin eybrows in diesels. And Thank God I too have a good young apprentice working with me. He has certainly picked up the extra responsibilty of handling what I can't handle or drink. And he's holding his own ground quite well. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cheers.gif /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/drinkingdude.gif And he does well on diesels as well. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif